Urban highway expansion faces relocation and safety debates
An environmental report outlines residential and business displacement for a proposed four lane highway in Illinois, with expected home values mostly between 10 000 and 20 000 dollars. It notes greater impact on corner groceries and gas stations, plans to save nearby trees, and safety concerns for Center School children crossing.
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Departments of Agriculture, Defense
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Housing and Urban Development
Interior
Hurricane Names for the 1972 Season Agres Bett
Agres Bett outlines the official list of hurricane names chosen for the 1972 Atlantic season. The document details name selection and ordering used by meteorologists and storm tracking agencies.
Illinois Senate expected to pass school aid boost pact
A bipartisan agreement would add about 11 million to the 787 million proposed for public elementary and high schools in fiscal 1973. The plan includes pardoning overpayments, routing about 9 million to schools, with 2 million to Chicago and 7 million downstate, and preserves funds for Chicago operations without taking from downstate districts.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Senate
House
Richard B. Ogilvie
Senate
John Gilbert
Carbondale
Cecil A. Partee
Partee
Chicago
Ogilvie
Michael Bakalis
Bakalis
Gilbert
Downstate
Daley Keeps Open Path to Compromise on Delegates
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley suggested he may accept any office to resolve the seating challenge of 59 delegates including himself to the Democratic National Convention. He criticized hearing officer Cecil Poole’s ruling and expressed renewed hope that Edward M. Kennedy would become a candidate, saying you always hope.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Illinois
Cecil Poole
San Francisco
Daley
McGovern
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Chicago 7 ask appeals court to reconsider contempt ruling
The Chicago 7 defendants and two lawyers plus Bobby Seale petition the 7th U.S. Circuit to revisit contempt citations linked to the 1971 trial after the appeals court overturned penalties for Hoffman conflicts. Robson keeps the case pending a ruling on the new petition. Sentences ranged from 2 months 18 days to 4 years 4 days. Five defendants appeal 1968 Democratic Convention rioting convictions.
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Chicago
Chicago 7
7Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Bobby G Seale
Black Panther
Julius J. Hoffman
U.S. District Court
Hoffman
District Court
Edwin A. Robson
Roof collapses in Chicago leaves nine homeless
A 93 year old brick South Side building roof collapsed Tuesday, caused by weakened roof support. One resident was treated for shock. nine people lost their homes according to police and a city building official.
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Chicago
Mass transit funding bill advances in Illinois House
The House approved a measure to route 200 million in transportation bond funds to 17 downstate districts as grants with no local match. Up to 10 percent would go to downstate areas, with critics calling the bill hurried and political. Eligible districts include Springfield, Rock Island, East Peoria, Champaign Urbana, Joliet, Des Plaines, Chicago South and others.
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Ill
General Assembly
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Senate
W. Robert Blair
Park Forest
Clyde L. Choate
Anna
W.D. Walsh
la- Grange Park
Rolland Tipsword
Taylorville
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Choate
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Decatur
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Pekin
Illinois ends 24 hour air pollution watch
A 24 hour air pollution watch for Cook Du Page Grundy Kane Kankakee Kendall Lake McHenry and Will counties was set to end late today. The watch declared at 4 p.m. Tuesday by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency guides the first of a four step plan to cut air pollution during stagnant weather with advice to avoid outdoor exposure and heavy activity for those with respiratory or heart issues.
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Ill
Illinois
Ilinois Environmental Protection Agency
Cook
DuPage
Grundy
Kane
Kankakee
Kendall
Lake
McHenry
Will
John J. Roberts
EPA
Division of
Barbs on wallets and wind storms in election rhetoric
The text jokes that keeping credit cards in a wallet is safest and suggests during election years storms like hurricanes should be named after politicians. The remark uses playful hyperbole to critique political discourse.
Aurora boy loses battle for life after tricycle prize
A 10 year old from Aurora, Jimm Heinz, died at University of Illinois Hospital after a long illness from Hodgkin disease. He had just won first prize for workmanship in a Wheel of Fortune Motorcycle Club contest with a three wheel vehicle finished June 17. Funeral services were set for Thursday in Aurora.
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Chicago
Jimm Heinz
Aurora
Hodgkin
Jimmy
University of Illinois
Wheel of Fortune Motorcycle Club
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